I got "sober" for court many times. Armed to the teeth with letters, people, sign-in sheets, and the one goal of getting off the hook. Too many times I was able to fool the powers that be, only to start to bargain with GOD as soon as the Judge let me off. Backed into a corner I was anything you wanted me to be. But inside I was the same man. When the incentive to be sober was no longer just to get out of whatever jam I was in at the moment, and started to be an adoption of a new way of life, was I was truly able to recover.